You must be new here, Roman mir posts this dribble on a regular basis without any comprehension or thought as to what it means. He's like those dumb asses that advocate for a "fair tax" without comprehending that a sales tax that is even by fairtax.org's admission 23% would only result in more jobs being shipped over seas as it would clearly accentuate the difference in the cost of production between the US and the 2nd and 3rd world countries that have been dumping goods in the US at artificially reduced rates for years.
But OTOH it's nice to live in a nation where even whack jobs like that have the ability to spout their ignorant views without being incarcerated.
Taxing consumption is a direct tax on production. And worse it is an _avoidable_ tax on production. Meaning that you can avoid paying the tax by not consuming anything. Which might seem to be fine, until you realize that everything we have has to be taxed and that sales taxes tend to encourage people to buy cheaper things, usually produced off shore.
In order to exist with our current standard of living, there are things we must have. Infrastructure, police, defense department, emergency services and other things. They don't become cheaper or less necessary if people are consuming less or producing less, they just either take up more of the GDP or you have to make cut backs.
Supply side economics is bunk, the great recession has killed the last credibility that the school of thought had. It is only in the precise case where taxation on investment is high enough to kill investments. Which usually ends up being way north of 50%.
Not legally they aren't. MS is legally required to pay taxes to WA and has opted not to, but they are still on the hook legally for $1 billion or so since they have a significant presence here. I doubt very much that our Attorney General or legislature has the stones to make them cough it up though. Curiously enough, that's something which wasn't the case when Bill Gates was running the company. As ruthless as he is, they did pay taxes for most of his tenure. Time located out of state excepted.
In terms of international business it would be a lot less of an issue if companies weren't opting to pay tax in Ireland and then booking deductions on money that hasn't been subjected to US taxation in the US.
It's not just a question of the benefits, it's a question of whether the iPad can provide them better than the competition. And I'm not really sure that they can right now. The iPad is less expensive than a high end tablet, but more expensive than a high end ebook. It gets worse battery life than the ebook readers and is harder to read in the outdoors. But, it's display is more responsive and the input might be a bit more efficient than the ebook readers.
I'll have to wait and see, but I'm not really sure that in the business environment that paying that kind of money when you can get a color Nook for half that or a tablet starting in the $300 range that it's going to fly.
I do admit that I could be wrong, I just think that the Apple has an uphill struggle if if wants the iPad to be used in the business world as a replacement for tablets.
Indeed. If you want an ebook reader, e-ink is the way to go, you get the sharpness and easy to read benefits from what is essentially a reprinting book with the easy to navigate features that come with digital technology.
Now, it can't really handle color very well, the e-ink technology can handle color sort of but not well and the refresh rate isn't as good, but at the end of the day if you're wanting to keep reports on hand in a convenient form and possibly have them updated your better off getting an actual ebook reader. Both the Kindle and Nook are great for that with the proper infrastructure.
If you're needing something to enter data conveniently, you really do need a real keyboard for that. Touch screen devices just are not as good as a keyboard for that, in the same way that a mouse just isn't as effective as a keyboard or graphics tablet, dependent upon use.
I'm wondering about that. I can't imagine them being easy to enter information into, and reading on a display like that tends to be sort of tiring. I didn't realize how much of a pain it was until I got my Nook a couple days ago. Much less strain on the eyes than on my LCD monitor.
The iPad presumably isn't good in bright light and the battery life is about 10 hours, and apart from wireless that's about what you get.
At least with the Kindle and Nook you get something that's efficient with sales reports and without a lot of distractions.
I'd like to know where you go to buy coffee that makes you think that somebody would compare buying it there to rape. At least with the prison analogy there is some component which is analogous, if a bit of a hyperbole. I mean they do call unlocking an iPhone jailbreaking it for a reason. But in no respect to any extent is rape like charging $5 for coffee.
I take it you've got poor eyesight. Because 4.8" is plenty of screen space for a personal video device to have, you just can't sit three feet away from it and expect to make out the details.
There was nothing wrong with PDF, sort of like how there was nothing wrong with.DOCs either. But then some genius got the idea that it might be fun to embed a programming language in there for whatever reason and the rest is history.
In the modern era securing PDFs shouldn't take much effort, declaring the region that it's loaded into to be non-executable ought to go a long way towards that. Although since PDFs can be essentially executed, that kind of makes that a challenge.
Have you tried to use the cupholder on a laptop? On a desktop, the cup more or less stays put, but the last time I used one on a laptop, I ended up spilling half of it on my lap.
I can only imagine how difficult it would be to balance use a tablet based cupholder.
I'm sorry sir, but this isn't the appropriate venue to offer those sorts of services. I'd refer you to Craig's list, but apparently they aren't that sort of venue either.
Right, but as it turns out, this isn't tampering, and it's not something which they made any meaningful effort to avoid either. I suspect that if anybody does manage to upload a custom firmware that they may step down hard on that.
MS makes less money off of each Kinect when used sans Xbox, but they do make a bit of money. I don't think that they want to encourage people to buy it without buying XBox games to go with it.
Or the PR folks just weren't properly briefed. The comments they made sounded sufficiently ignorant that I'm not really sure that they were speaking for anybody. Remember the comments were about modding, and the "mod" was just a driver, it didn't actually change any of the hardware inside the device or allow it to do things other than work without an Xbox 360.
But, the congress isn't free to do as it pleases, the President can veto anything he wants, and the courts can set aside things as unconstitutional. It's only in recent times that the filibuster has become such a significant factor in the legislative process, and I doubt very much that using it to prevent much needed healthcare reform is really what it was intended for.
The answer is a constitutional amendment that changes it back. Personally I don't want it to go completely back, I'd like to see the constitution changed to allow each state to decide whether to have the Senators appointed by the house delegation from the state or elected via popular vote.
For states such as CA, TX or NY et al., it would make it a lot harder to buy Senators, but in cases of states like Wyoming it's actually harder to buy a Senator now than it was prior to the 17th amendment being enacted.
Right, however it does greatly increase the cost of their extortion racket. As they then have to start filing in the numerous courts that actually have jurisdiction. And ultimately the attorneys who tried such a blatant abuse of the court ought to be disbarred. You can't just raft a huge number of people together into a single suit without having a plausible theory for their relationship together.
There's plenty of evidence that the RIAA studios are engaged in extortion. I mean "pay us without our showing you the evidence or we file suit" is pretty much extortion by any reasonable definition assuming that they don't offer to show the evidence or provide it for review by the person's attorney.
The making available theory was set aside a few years back. In order for it to be infringement you not only have to make it available, but somebody has to actually download it. And not only that, the party filing the suit has to prove that somebody actually downloaded it without authorization.
Meaning that whomever they've authorized to investigate can't download a copy and use that as evidence that the file was actually downloaded without authorization.
I'd actually recommend his take on Postal. As a film, I've seen far worse, and actually, it's a decent film. As long as you can stomach the things like Dave Foley completely nude, it works pretty well. Plus he spends quite a bit of time making fun of himself which is worth the price of admission.
Well he is, but what he's failing to account for is why they chose to try it in the first place. The reason is that it gave them an unfair and illegal advantage. If they had to file each of these separately in a court with actual jurisdiction it would cost them a lot more to prosecute their case and would even things out a bit in terms of fairness of trial.
They don't want that because this is essentially just an extensive extortion scam. Pay us the money because we might have evidence that you violated our copyright or we'll sue you into the poor house.
The reason why the GP was modded troll was because he was so amazingly wrong. Given the way that the courts have been handling things up to this point, it is news whenever the court decides that normal rules apply to the RIAA studios. And this effectively makes it expensive enough that they're likely going to have to drop their suits as it's getting dangerously close to the point of vexatious litigation.
But the making available theory was set aside years ago as not representing infringement. They would have to prove that not only did the defendants make it available, but that somebody without the authority to download it did. Which they haven't been able to do as their investigators are authorized to download such materials in the process of investigating.
Plus, there's the issue of jurisdiction and joining together John Does that aren't related in any meaningful way other than that they are alleged to have committed the same violation of copyright law.
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You must be new here, Roman mir posts this dribble on a regular basis without any comprehension or thought as to what it means. He's like those dumb asses that advocate for a "fair tax" without comprehending that a sales tax that is even by fairtax.org's admission 23% would only result in more jobs being shipped over seas as it would clearly accentuate the difference in the cost of production between the US and the 2nd and 3rd world countries that have been dumping goods in the US at artificially reduced rates for years.
But OTOH it's nice to live in a nation where even whack jobs like that have the ability to spout their ignorant views without being incarcerated.
I call bullshit on you.
Taxing consumption is a direct tax on production. And worse it is an _avoidable_ tax on production. Meaning that you can avoid paying the tax by not consuming anything. Which might seem to be fine, until you realize that everything we have has to be taxed and that sales taxes tend to encourage people to buy cheaper things, usually produced off shore.
In order to exist with our current standard of living, there are things we must have. Infrastructure, police, defense department, emergency services and other things. They don't become cheaper or less necessary if people are consuming less or producing less, they just either take up more of the GDP or you have to make cut backs.
Supply side economics is bunk, the great recession has killed the last credibility that the school of thought had. It is only in the precise case where taxation on investment is high enough to kill investments. Which usually ends up being way north of 50%.
Not legally they aren't. MS is legally required to pay taxes to WA and has opted not to, but they are still on the hook legally for $1 billion or so since they have a significant presence here. I doubt very much that our Attorney General or legislature has the stones to make them cough it up though. Curiously enough, that's something which wasn't the case when Bill Gates was running the company. As ruthless as he is, they did pay taxes for most of his tenure. Time located out of state excepted.
In terms of international business it would be a lot less of an issue if companies weren't opting to pay tax in Ireland and then booking deductions on money that hasn't been subjected to US taxation in the US.
I think /. has a special subroutine which automatically routes any submissions about Apple products to the front page. Along with those that bash MS.
It's not just a question of the benefits, it's a question of whether the iPad can provide them better than the competition. And I'm not really sure that they can right now. The iPad is less expensive than a high end tablet, but more expensive than a high end ebook. It gets worse battery life than the ebook readers and is harder to read in the outdoors. But, it's display is more responsive and the input might be a bit more efficient than the ebook readers.
I'll have to wait and see, but I'm not really sure that in the business environment that paying that kind of money when you can get a color Nook for half that or a tablet starting in the $300 range that it's going to fly.
I do admit that I could be wrong, I just think that the Apple has an uphill struggle if if wants the iPad to be used in the business world as a replacement for tablets.
Indeed. If you want an ebook reader, e-ink is the way to go, you get the sharpness and easy to read benefits from what is essentially a reprinting book with the easy to navigate features that come with digital technology.
Now, it can't really handle color very well, the e-ink technology can handle color sort of but not well and the refresh rate isn't as good, but at the end of the day if you're wanting to keep reports on hand in a convenient form and possibly have them updated your better off getting an actual ebook reader. Both the Kindle and Nook are great for that with the proper infrastructure.
If you're needing something to enter data conveniently, you really do need a real keyboard for that. Touch screen devices just are not as good as a keyboard for that, in the same way that a mouse just isn't as effective as a keyboard or graphics tablet, dependent upon use.
I'm wondering about that. I can't imagine them being easy to enter information into, and reading on a display like that tends to be sort of tiring. I didn't realize how much of a pain it was until I got my Nook a couple days ago. Much less strain on the eyes than on my LCD monitor.
The iPad presumably isn't good in bright light and the battery life is about 10 hours, and apart from wireless that's about what you get.
At least with the Kindle and Nook you get something that's efficient with sales reports and without a lot of distractions.
I'd like to know where you go to buy coffee that makes you think that somebody would compare buying it there to rape. At least with the prison analogy there is some component which is analogous, if a bit of a hyperbole. I mean they do call unlocking an iPhone jailbreaking it for a reason. But in no respect to any extent is rape like charging $5 for coffee.
I take it you've got poor eyesight. Because 4.8" is plenty of screen space for a personal video device to have, you just can't sit three feet away from it and expect to make out the details.
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There was nothing wrong with PDF, sort of like how there was nothing wrong with .DOCs either. But then some genius got the idea that it might be fun to embed a programming language in there for whatever reason and the rest is history.
In the modern era securing PDFs shouldn't take much effort, declaring the region that it's loaded into to be non-executable ought to go a long way towards that. Although since PDFs can be essentially executed, that kind of makes that a challenge.
Have you tried to use the cupholder on a laptop? On a desktop, the cup more or less stays put, but the last time I used one on a laptop, I ended up spilling half of it on my lap.
I can only imagine how difficult it would be to balance use a tablet based cupholder.
I'm sorry sir, but this isn't the appropriate venue to offer those sorts of services. I'd refer you to Craig's list, but apparently they aren't that sort of venue either.
Right, but as it turns out, this isn't tampering, and it's not something which they made any meaningful effort to avoid either. I suspect that if anybody does manage to upload a custom firmware that they may step down hard on that.
MS makes less money off of each Kinect when used sans Xbox, but they do make a bit of money. I don't think that they want to encourage people to buy it without buying XBox games to go with it.
Or the PR folks just weren't properly briefed. The comments they made sounded sufficiently ignorant that I'm not really sure that they were speaking for anybody. Remember the comments were about modding, and the "mod" was just a driver, it didn't actually change any of the hardware inside the device or allow it to do things other than work without an Xbox 360.
So you support the reform party?
But, the congress isn't free to do as it pleases, the President can veto anything he wants, and the courts can set aside things as unconstitutional. It's only in recent times that the filibuster has become such a significant factor in the legislative process, and I doubt very much that using it to prevent much needed healthcare reform is really what it was intended for.
The answer is a constitutional amendment that changes it back. Personally I don't want it to go completely back, I'd like to see the constitution changed to allow each state to decide whether to have the Senators appointed by the house delegation from the state or elected via popular vote.
For states such as CA, TX or NY et al., it would make it a lot harder to buy Senators, but in cases of states like Wyoming it's actually harder to buy a Senator now than it was prior to the 17th amendment being enacted.
Right, however it does greatly increase the cost of their extortion racket. As they then have to start filing in the numerous courts that actually have jurisdiction. And ultimately the attorneys who tried such a blatant abuse of the court ought to be disbarred. You can't just raft a huge number of people together into a single suit without having a plausible theory for their relationship together.
There's plenty of evidence that the RIAA studios are engaged in extortion. I mean "pay us without our showing you the evidence or we file suit" is pretty much extortion by any reasonable definition assuming that they don't offer to show the evidence or provide it for review by the person's attorney.
The making available theory was set aside a few years back. In order for it to be infringement you not only have to make it available, but somebody has to actually download it. And not only that, the party filing the suit has to prove that somebody actually downloaded it without authorization.
Meaning that whomever they've authorized to investigate can't download a copy and use that as evidence that the file was actually downloaded without authorization.
I'd actually recommend his take on Postal. As a film, I've seen far worse, and actually, it's a decent film. As long as you can stomach the things like Dave Foley completely nude, it works pretty well. Plus he spends quite a bit of time making fun of himself which is worth the price of admission.
Well he is, but what he's failing to account for is why they chose to try it in the first place. The reason is that it gave them an unfair and illegal advantage. If they had to file each of these separately in a court with actual jurisdiction it would cost them a lot more to prosecute their case and would even things out a bit in terms of fairness of trial.
They don't want that because this is essentially just an extensive extortion scam. Pay us the money because we might have evidence that you violated our copyright or we'll sue you into the poor house.
The reason why the GP was modded troll was because he was so amazingly wrong. Given the way that the courts have been handling things up to this point, it is news whenever the court decides that normal rules apply to the RIAA studios. And this effectively makes it expensive enough that they're likely going to have to drop their suits as it's getting dangerously close to the point of vexatious litigation.
But the making available theory was set aside years ago as not representing infringement. They would have to prove that not only did the defendants make it available, but that somebody without the authority to download it did. Which they haven't been able to do as their investigators are authorized to download such materials in the process of investigating.
Plus, there's the issue of jurisdiction and joining together John Does that aren't related in any meaningful way other than that they are alleged to have committed the same violation of copyright law.